Highlights from the Workplace Relations Commission 2022 Annual Report

The Workplace Relations Commission (the Irish employment law tribunal) (the "WRC") has recently published its 2022 Annual Report.

Complaint Breakdown

• Most complaints were made under the Payment of Wages Act, 1991 with 3,363 complaints.
• This was followed by the Employment Equality Acts 1998 - 2015, and the Equal Status Act, 2000 with 1,851 complaints; and
• Finally, the Terms of Employment (Information) Acts, 1994 -2014 with 1,222 complaints.

Pre-Adjudication Mediations

In 2022, 1,546 cases were selected for mediation, 658 of these cases progressed to full mediation where both parties agreed to participate. This represents an increase in participation by 31% compared to 2021 and the number of cases resolved by mediation also increased by 30%.

261 of these mediations were carried out via telephone (a 25% decrease compared to 2021). Face to face medications increased by 263% in 2022. The number of resolved face to face mediation also increased by 276%.

Complaints

6,263 complaint applications encompassing 12,790 individual complaints were received by the WRC in 2022, a decrease of 4.5% and 6.5% respectively compared to 2021. The main types of complaints were as follows:

• Pay (3,363);
• Discrimination/Equality/Equal Status (1,851);
• Terms & Conditions (1,222);
• Agency Working (314);
• Fixed/Part Time (192);
• Working time (1,470);
• Minimum Notice (467);
• Parental, Carers Leave (46);
• Penalisation (644);
• Protection...

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